{"id":1903,"date":"2018-04-19T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2018-04-19T15:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:57:39","slug":"baffles-are-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1903","title":{"rendered":"Baffles Are Done!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/E46E66BA-F823-4430-8DB5-0AA7EB1D6080.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1904\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/E46E66BA-F823-4430-8DB5-0AA7EB1D6080-700x525.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/E46E66BA-F823-4430-8DB5-0AA7EB1D6080-700x525.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/E46E66BA-F823-4430-8DB5-0AA7EB1D6080-150x113.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/E46E66BA-F823-4430-8DB5-0AA7EB1D6080-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spent hours and hours making sure every single leak was filled with RTV. \u00a0This RV-14 baffle kit is light years better than the kit I used on my RV-7A as there are substantially fewer places to fill in<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/169A9802-5BD5-4CDE-B8E5-FB8EEBD7A490.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1905\" src=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/169A9802-5BD5-4CDE-B8E5-FB8EEBD7A490-700x525.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/169A9802-5BD5-4CDE-B8E5-FB8EEBD7A490-700x525.jpeg 700w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/169A9802-5BD5-4CDE-B8E5-FB8EEBD7A490-150x113.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/169A9802-5BD5-4CDE-B8E5-FB8EEBD7A490-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Afterwards I installed the lower baffle ties. I used safety wire and washers instead of the stainless steel rods which are hard as heck to put a thread on. Lighter too I suspect but did not measure. I covered the wire with high temp silicone tubing. No pics. \u00a0You really shouldn\u2019t tie both cylinders together it has been said but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I also installed the 4 inch scat tube from the back of the baffles to the firewall mounted oil cooler. It\u2019s tight back there and I hope this experiment works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent hours and hours making sure every single leak was filled with RTV. \u00a0This RV-14 baffle kit is light years better than the kit I used on my RV-7A as there are substantially fewer places to fill in Afterwards I installed the lower baffle ties. I used safety wire and washers instead of the stainless <a href='http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/?p=1903' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tondu.com\/rv8a\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}